Facebook invites applications for Top Jobs in India

Social media giant Facebook has advertised a raft of India leadership jobs. Facebook India has invited applications for the vertical head for e-commerce, head of creative strategy, director of small and medium businesses, a strategic partner for platform partnerships, a public policy manager for India and South Asia, and a strategic partner manager for news partnerships in India.

As per the descriptions posted on jobs and social networking platform LinkedIn, the vertical head for e-commerce will be based in Gurgaon and will be expected to lead Facebook India’s e-commerce team and manage the company’s monetisation of the e-commerce vertical. The executive will be expected to create and deliver “compelling sales narratives that will help the industry shift to mobile commerce”, besides driving key account relationships with C suite level decision-makers in e-commerce.

The advert for the head of creative strategy says the candidate should be an experienced creative and strategic leader with a strong portfolio of award-winning effective marketing campaigns to lead a team of creative strategists working across all vertical industries, besides strengthening partnerships within the Facebook sales organisation as well as clients and agencies across India. The position will be based in Gurgaon.

Search firm Spencer Stuart is managing the search for Facebook’s India head.The roles of strategic partner development, news in India and strategic partner manager for news partnerships could be based in Delhi or Mumbai, people aware of the company’s plans said.

While the former post is meant to support Facebook Journalism Project’s global strategic initiatives in India, the latter is expected to collaborate with the biggest newsrooms across India to implement strategic partnership plans around Facebook's products, tools and services.

According to the job posting, the partner manager for platform partnerships will also work with the Messenger and Instagram product and engineering teams and should be someone who is passionate about the way Facebook can work with businesses, startups and developers to build valuable product experiences for people. The candidate should be “obsessed” with technology, social media and business strategy in India.

Platform Partnerships at Facebook is responsible for establishing and managing strategic relationships with the company's key product partners.

Facebook grooming 7,500 Content reviewers for Objectionable posts

After facing fire over reports that its moderators protect far-right activists and under-age accounts, Facebook says it is constantly grooming over 7,500 content reviewers how to handle posts related to hate speeches, terror and child sexual exploitation on its platform.

The content reviewers are a mix of full-time employees, contractors and companies Facebook partners with - covering every time zone and over 50 languages across the world.

"Content review at this size has never been done before. After all, there has never been a platform where so many people communicate in so many different languages across so many different countries and cultures. We recognise the enormity of this challenge and the responsibility we have to get it right," Ellen Silver, Vice President of Operations at Facebook, wrote in a blog post.

"Language proficiency is key and it lets us review content around the clock. If something is reported in a language that we don't support 24/7, we can work with translation companies and other experts who can help us understand local context and language to assist in reviewing it," Silver added.

The company came under heavy criticism Channel 4 Dispatches - a documentary series - sent an undercover reporter to work as a content moderator in a Dublin-based Facebook contractor.

It showed that moderators at Facebook were preventing Pages from far-right activists from being deleted even after they violate the rules.

In a blog post, Monika Bickert, Vice President of Global Policy Management at Facebook, said the TV report on Channel 4 in the UK raised important questions about their policies and processes.

Facebook has also promised to double the number of people working on its safety and security teams this year to 20,000.

Silver said the company is training its team of content reviewers in three areas - pre-training which includes what to expect on the job; hands-on learning that includes a minimum of 80 hours with a live instructor followed by hands-on practice and ongoing coaching.

"We want to keep personal perspectives and biases out of the equation entirely - so, in theory, two people reviewing the same posts would always make the same decision. Of course, judgments can vary if policies aren't sufficiently prescriptive.

Facebook said it audits a sample of reviewer decisions each week to find out if a wrong call was made.

"Our auditors are even audited on a regular basis. In addition, we have leadership at each office to provide guidance, as well as weekly check-ins with policy experts to answer any questions," said the social media giant.

Facebook said it has a team of four clinical psychologists across three regions who are tasked with designing, delivering and evaluating resiliency programmers for everyone who works with graphics and objectionable content.

"This group also works with our vendor partners and their dedicated resiliency teams to help build industry standards," said Silver.

Facebook Expands Job Listing Feature to 40 more Countries

•   Facebook has announced its job-hunting service is rolling out to 40 countries
•   It was first introduced in the US and Canada last year and is now expanding
•   Jobs can be listed or applied to at a 'dashboard' in Facebook applications

Facebook's job listings feature has gotten so popular that the social media giant is expanding it internationally. The firm said that its job-hunting service is expanding to 40 more countries in the next few weeks, including the UK, Italy, Spain, Argentina and Brazil.

Facebook introduced jobs listings in the US and Canada last year.Since then, the service has grown in popularity and in scale, Facebook vice president Alex Himel wrote in a blog post.In a survey of 5,000 adults, one in four people in the US said they searched for or found a job using Facebook.

Facebook has enhanced it to handle tasks such as managing applications, scheduling interviews, and get alerts when desired types of positions are listed.Jobs can be listed, or applied for, at a 'dashboard' devoted to the purpose of Facebook applications.Facebook users can filter their results based on local jobs, job categories and job type. 

The job platform can't show any other information on a user's profile aside from what is made public by the user.Use of the basic service is free, but businesses can pay to 'boost' posts and more strongly target candidates, according to the Silicon Valley-based social network.Job posts appear in several locations on the social network, including business pages, Marketplace, and in News Feed.

How Can you access Facebooks Job Features

•      Navigate to your News Feed
•     On the side of the page, there's a section titled 'Explore,' which has options to click on   'Events,' 'Pages' and 'Groups,' among other things
•     Click on the option for 'Jobs'
•     From there, you can specify based on location, industry and job type

 With more than two billion users around the world, Facebook promises strong potential for connecting people seeking work with open jobs, especially medium- or low-skill jobs in local enterprises.' a lot of these businesses who aren't able to fill their positions elsewhere, they're seeing success on Facebook,' Himel said.

Facebook's job service wades into the terrain of career-focused social network LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought two years ago in a deal valued at $26 billion.But LinkedIn is seen as an online venue for professionals to cultivate connections and opportunities whereas Facebook's job service appeared crafted for positions requiring less schooling or specialized training.

 LinkedIn typically helps connect people with jobs that require skilled or highly skilled labour.

Google rolled out a similar jobs listing feature last June that serves up help-wanted listings that it finds on the internet.The feature also shows the typical commute time for each job.